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...what extent the Soviet Government is guilty of "religious persecution" strikingly appeared last week when England's famed Manchester Guardian secured and printed the substance of the secret report lately made to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald by His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow, Sir Esmond Ovey...
...fearing Church of Englander, schooled at aristocratic Eton, Sir Esmond does not lie under slightest suspicion of partiality for the Reds. He and the First Secretary of his Embassy prepared the report after "very wide inquiries in religious quarters." At the British Foreign Office officials expressed well-bred annoyance that this secret state paper had fallen into even the trustworthy Guardian's hands but made no suggestion that it was not genuine...
Guilty. Sir Esmond has discovered nothing new, but his official confirmation is of historical value. Soviet law from the first has disenfranchised the previously privileged and exalted classes in Russia: the nobility, the priesthood, members of the former fighting and civil services. Excerpt from the Ovey report...
...Persecution." Most judges and statesmen do not regard enforcement of any law enacted by the legislature of a sovereign state as "persecution." Sir Esmond Ovey, trained in the British Foreign Office tradition of using words exactly and not loosely (of "saying what one means and meaning what one says"), concludes with the regret of a Churchman forced to give the Devil his due: "There is no religious persecution in Russia in the strict sense of the term 'persecution,' and no case has been discovered of a priest or anyone else being punished for the practice of religion...
Despite the deploring vote of Their Lordships, Sir Esmond Ovey left London last week for Moscow as His Majesty's ambassador to the Reds...